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thesoulspulse · 1 year

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Danny Phantom Randomness (Reality Check)

One thing really I love about the episode “Reality Trip” is how sincere Jack and Maddie are about accepting Danny because he’s Danny, their precious baby boy. It was nice to see them admit that yeah sure, they do tend to get carried away with all their ghost hunting stuff, but at the end of the day they love their children very much even if it doesn’t always show and if they knew better neither of them would EVER harm a hair on Danny’s head. Everyone makes mistakes and this is by far one of the most heartfelt moments between Danny and his parents in the show so it’s a shame that when Danny revealed his secret to the world again in the series finale all we got was-

Jack: Nice job, Danny. Or should we say, Danny... Danny: What? Uh. Sorry citizens, but I have no idea what you're talking about. Maddie: Isn't there something you wanna tell us? Jazz: It's okay, Danny. They know.

Then Danny changes back in front of everyone, they clap, and that’s it. Now, let’s compare that to the interaction at the end of “Reality Trip” just after Danny saved Sam, Tucker’s, and his own parents from Freakshow which if you’ll recall is ALSO a time when everyone in the world technically knew Danny’s secret because he accidentally changed back on camera during a Dumpty Humpty concert.

Jack: Danny! Maddie: Young man? Danny: I...I'm sorry. Gah! [Jack crushes him in a bear hug] Jack: We're very proud of you, son. Maddie: Oh! Oh, my baby boy! [Kissing his cheek] Danny: But I lied to you. Over and over for a really long time. If I were you guys, I'd be furious. Maddie: Well, of course you lied to us. We never gave you a reason not to. Jack: All this time we've been yammering on destroying and dissecting ghosts. I'd have been terrified too, if I were you. Maddie: We love you, sweetie. You. Jack: Whether you're ghost, boy, or something in between.

Like, seriously despite their flaws I think under the right circumstances Danny could have told them the truth about himself which could have changed everything for him in a big way. That’s actually the point of this post, to talk about how things could have been different if Danny erased everyone’s memories EXCEPT for his parents. So first of all, since Jazz knows too and pointed out the reasons why Danny was scared to tell them in the first place I think it’d be nice for them to sit down and talk it all out.

First of all, I’m assuming it’s been at least a year now since the accident and Jack’s first sighting of the ‘ghost boy’ which made him change his mind about giving up ghost hunting after he and Maddie got carried away thinking Jazz was a ghost when they thought she was ‘acting out of character.’ To be fair, Danny’s probably not going to tell them EVERYTHING since he did overshadow his dad a lot early on which could be embarrassing for them both and get Danny in trouble for literally manipulating him like that. But the big kicker here is, ironically, how he’s going to have to tell them about Vlad since the whole half-ghost thing technically started with him first.

You think they feel guilty now attacking their own son, try imagining how horrified they’d be to find out that Jack DID ruin Vlad’s life to some extent and he’s been fighting their son ever since who has been trying to protect them from their former best friend. Vlad’s manipulation is SO much worse than anything Danny did and oooo, Maddie isn’t going to be afraid to rip HIM apart molecule by molecule once she finds out Vlad is the one who rigged it so they’d end up in the Rockies that one time AND sent those ghosts after her son while he was powerless. Jack’s going to be pissed too realizing Vlad possessed HIM during their college reunion, putting Maddie and his kids in danger. But all that aside for now, the big thing to note here is how Jack and Maddie are going to have to take responsibility for their part in both portal accidents now that created the only half-ghosts in the world...

It’ll be a tough pill to swallow for sure but based on that chat Vlad and Jack had in space while trying to destroy the Disasteroid, Jack does understand what he did and feels bad about it. He’s not stupid. And most importantly, Jack realizes Vlad’s not his friend anymore and ends their relationship. That’s why I feel like if Maddie and Jack found out about all the horrible things Vlad actively did to Danny over the past year, they’d cut ties with him altogether for the good of their family. Meanwhile, Danny would finally have his parents a 100% on his side and willing to try to understand him and the unusual circumstances he’s been dealing with on top of being a teenager.

I won’t get into the major changes like how most of season 3 wouldn’t have happened but what I will say is that having Maddie reject Vlad to his face for endangering and tormenting her son is something that would actually send Vlad off the deep end. Honestly, he’ll be lucky if Jack and Maddie don’t threaten to expose his secret to the world themselves and actually ruin his life unless he stays away from their family from now on. Think about it, Vlad has attacked Danny, their 14 year old son countless times but it’s not like they could get him arrested without revealing Danny’s secret too which means this would have to be the next best thing.

Anyways, let’s say this is when Vlad decides to take over the world to force Maddie to be his or...better yet maybe he’ll start looking for a way to change the past or reality altogether to get what he wants at any cost. Danny already destroyed the Reality Gauntlet, but there are probably other powerful relics hiding both in the real world and the Ghost Zone for Vlad to track down. Vlad might even try another classic villain route with brainwashing/hypnotism as a last ditch effort to win Danny’s loyalty and Maddie’s love. Meanwhile, now Danny has to deal with a new problem of his parents AND Jazz being overprotective and getting in the way of his ghost hunting until they come up with some ground rules or something. Not to mention there’s still Valerie who is technically still working for Vlad at this point and still doesn’t know the whole story after Danny reset the rest of the world to forget his secret who might just be able to convince her to kidnap Danny to free him from the ghost Danny PHANTOM possessing him.

Blegh, sorry I have a lot of thoughts in my head about this so sorry if I’m rambling. The point is, I would have liked to see the real ‘reveal’ to his parents go more like it did in “Reality Trip” when it comes as a huge relief that his parents openly accepted him without Danny having to deal with the world at large knowing his secret too. His life could have become easier in some ways but harder in others which would have been really interesting to see since we never got to see what happened after “Phantom Planet.” I might go into more detail later but for now, lets leave it at that.

P.S. You can watch the clips here for more context!

Link: https://thesoulspulse.tumblr.com/post/700197230039138304/these-are-the-scenes-i-was-talking-about-in-my

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hella1975 · 11 months

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hella would you like to tell the class (me) about your touya playlist

i dont WANT to im GOING TO bc i literally am acting posessed rn and have no say in the matter anymore. fuck my stupid baka life. anyway id like to preface this by saying to anyone who actually knows anything about mha that some of what i say might be fanon hcs and not canon, and that's bc ive absorbed mha content in possibly the most insane way possible and at this point even i dont know what's canon and what's from the hundreds of thousands of words of fanfiction ive read in a short amount of time. like i am in free fall rn i have bigger problems to be quite honest

touya's playlist song-by-song!

so off the bat, this playlist is much more somber and angsty than you might expect of dabi and that's bc i already have a playlist specifically for his identity as dabi, and that leans way more into songs that have his VIBES and/or i feel like he'd listen to. this one however is just pure devastation bc alas he is fucked in the head.

the archer - COMBAT HE IS LITERALLY READY FOR COMBAT! his whole personality the reason he was PUT ON THIS EARTH was to fight and be a hero he was never supposed to be a child he was never supposed to be HUMAN he was always always defined by his ability to fight his skill as a firewielder his need to surpass all might. i say i dont want that but what if i do? he just wants his dad to love him, to acknowledge him, and if this is what it takes then by god he'll do it until it literally kills him BUT ALL OF MY HEROES DIED ALL ALONE! HIS DAD IS THE NO.2 HERO AND HE'S THE FIRST PERSON TOUYA NEEDED SAVING FROM! THEY SEE RIGHT THROUGH ME THEY SEE RIGHT THROUGH ME CAN YOU SEE RIGHT THROUGH ME? HE'S NOT THE FIGHTER HE SAYS HE IS HE'S JUST A CHILD. and then the most sickening bit: all the kings horses and all the king's men couldn't put me back together again. his body literally falls apart on him and the childish reference to humpty dumpty is just the reminder that he was only thir-fucking-teen when that happened. who could ever leave me. who could stay

the view between villages - this song is obvs 'being in your home and feeling it all coming back at once' and for noah kahan that's specifically the drive 'between villages' but for touya this song really makes me think of sekoto peak and just the todoroki residence as a whole. it's this beautiful lush forested area and it's where touya todoroki dies. he asks for his dad to come and see a technique that he's learned, something that's finally his, something shouto can't do, and enji isn't there and it kills touya. his quirk malfunctions and he burns himself alive and takes this beautiful landscape with him and enji isn't there. a minute from home but i feel so far from it. the death of my dog the stretch of my skin it's all washing over me im angry again. the things that i lost here the people i knew! they got me surrounded for a mile or two! losing my mind!

strangers - what started it all. he is yet another 'i tried to be good am i no good?' character and im not okay about it at all in the slightest. please, i just wanted to be good enough. i tried to be good and it set me alight. i just wanted to be yours. and then touya dies and they FORGET ABOUT HIM there's no public backlash there's no inquiry there's hardly even a funeral shouto doesn't remember him natsuo and fuyumi are hardly allowed to mention him the world consciously actively and purposely buries touya todoroki his memory restricted to a polaroid in evidence and then he returns. he returns ugly and scarred and barely held together. am i making you feel sick. and through it all, his mother is in a mental hospital, watching him on the news, crying and waiting up for him. dont think about it too hard or you'll never sleep a wink at night again.

ptolemaea - this song captures 'the breaking point' perfectly and that's just very touya especially for sekoto peak. promising a fire any fire im on fire im on fire im on fire what have you done stop stop make it stop ive had enough stop stop stop stop STOP I AM THE FACE OF LOVE'S RAGE. and so dabi was born in fire and anguish and agony. also if u take the doctor and all for one angle with this song about how they wanted touya as a second shigaraki and they took him from sekoto peak then the whole 'you poor thing you sweet mourning lamb there's nothing you can do it's already been done' is v much giving that angle of them taking advantage. blessed be the children each and every one come to know their god through some senseless act of violence.

be an astronaut - i talked about this song the other day bc the lyrics are kinda inexplicable but it fucking GUTS me and i could not tell you why. like the desperation of the vocals is just ughhhh give me a song that sounds borderline hysterical and ill eat it up regardless of what it's about. replace 'astronaut' with any specific character's motivation and you've got a prewrapped blorbo song right there. touya you were born to be your father's destiny and you'll do that or die trying. but there's an overarching air that it's a pity, it's a waste, it's hopeless. the song is almost MOCKING. all touya wants is revenge on endeavor, and yes it's blind and hateful and consumes him, but still is it really so much to ask? but he doesn't even get that much. the way the manga is going, touya will die and endeavor will be redeemed. nothing dabi did ever mattered. touya todoroki never mattered. it was always as ridiculous as a child saying they want to be an astronaut

waiting room - he got away from the abuse he opened his eyes and took down his father from the pedestal he put him on he acknowledged that his dad wasn't the hero anyone thought he was he already admitted the scary thing; that endeavor is not and never was good and everything he fed touya was wrong. it's for the better that he knows these things. it is. it's for the better. he's glad to be away from home. he is he is he is. it's for the better i know it's for the better i know it's for the better

christmas kids - YOU'LL CHANGE YOUR NAME AND CHANGE YOUR MIND AND LEAVE THIS FUCKED UP PLACE BEHIND BUT I'LL KNOW!!!!!!! 'dabi' and 'touya' are such wildly different people because dabi genuinely believes that touya todoroki is dead. he died at thirteen at sekoto peak and dabi was born. they aren't the same. touya was the weak, abused child who just wanted to be good. dabi is the villain ready to spill blood in his name. but at the end of the day, dabi is touya and touya is dabi. he can pick another name, go wherever he likes, join the league of villains if he wants, but that will always, always be true

i bet on losing dogs - this is just perpetually playing when i think about him. he's doomed to fail. he's not going to make it. i already know he isn't but oh god he deserved better

a burning hill - okay i was feeling funny like yes 'im tired of wanting more' 'im a forest fire and i am the fire and i am the forest and i am the witness watching it' is v touya coded and the general exhaustion of this song is horrific on its own let alone applied to a character that has been through so goddamn much, but also... it's literally a burning hill.... sekoto peak was a burning hill.... ha.... haha

mary on a cross - so glad u specificaly sent this ask bc the tbosutuals are SO insane about this song. like yes like all ghost songs it's technically just about horny sin but i will always, always associate this song with character death. specifically (and this is why it upsets me so much) this is one of the few character death songs of mine that isn't objectively sad, and that's because it reminds me of their LIFE. like it feels like a flashback in the moment of death of all the beautiful things, and it was beautiful it was brilliant, but they die anyway. they dont get to make it despite despite despite. and THAT'S why this song will always fuck with me. so yeah. touya. admittedly he's not on darya's level yet bc this will always be her song but for me to even touch this song with another character speaks volumes

cigarette daydreams - the ultimate 'you were too young to experience what you did' anthem. the vibes of this song are so dismal it sounds like what rain feels like. you were only seventeen. touya was 13/14 when he died and he woke up from his coma as dabi when he was 16/17 (pretty sure it was 16 but 17 works better with this song so shhhh). and then he's just. unaccounted for until he's 24. he's nothing and no one on the streets of japan and in the criminal underworld and he's just a fucking kid. a scared, traumatised, in constant pain kid.

hearing damage - hiiii it's me and this song again <3 similar to cigarette daydreams im going crazy about vibes again. like this song is so unsettling it's like static it FEELS like a dissociation and that's a really common coping mechanism for someone who's experienced high levels of trauma/constant stress to just pull the shutters down and tap out of the bad thing happening. like ive said before even if it isnt confirmed or denied yet that i know of i do firmly believe that dabi's just been on the streets since he was a teenager and i just think this really fits.

class of 2013 - rei never saved him. that child still screaming for their mother to help them never ever goes away. he's this big scary villain now, covered in scars and piercings, but every single day he has to fight and keep up a mask and watch for threats. do you think he thinks about her then? him, tired and so so hurt, and her fading away in a hospital because, just like him, she broke under the weight of enji's ambition? they're the two family fuck-ups, the two that couldn't take it, do you think he misses her? just once, could she wash the dye out of his hair and save him?

go home - KILLING MYSELF. this song is fine whatever im not talking about it any more than i did in that post but i will say this is very burn it all down by dorothycanfly dabi specifically bc that fic has been haunting me since i finished it crying my eyes out at 4am this morning god bless <3

georgia - kind of a dabihawks angle bc im a sucker for them but also just in general 'if i fix you will you hate me' dabi NEEDS this hatred of endeavor. he quite literally has nothing else down to his SKIN. he's made his entire life's purpose and quite clearly intends to go out in a blaze of glory WITH his dad. that's it. that's the endgame. kill endeavor. kill himself with him. how fucking sad is that. like it's PATHETIC in the worst way. he's clawing at this fucking revenge plan and pretending it's this grand, badass thing as if it's not just the small hands of touya reaching up from the grave for his father one last time. if i fix you will you hate me, because if someone took this from him, if someone gave him a will to live outside of this fury, if someone fixed him, then all of this would have been for nothing.

maggot - this is a more deranged 'i tried to be good' variation imo like i did everything right i made my bed i walked for hours i took my pills and you love me right? you need me? but what if im just a corpse and you're a maggot feeding? what then? is it still love? is it something more? or is it disgusting? he was only ever wanted for his fire. no one actually cared about touya.

everything i wanted - NO ONE CRIED NOBODY EVEN NOTICED I SAW THEM STANDING RIGHT THERE KINDA THOUGHT THEY MIGHT CARE. THEY FORGOT ABOUT HIM. THEY BURIED HIM. ON PURPOSE THEY BURIED HIM BECAUSE HIS MEMORY AND HOW FUNDAMENTALLY THEY FAILED HIM MADE THEM UNCOMFORTABLE. IT WAS LIKE HE NEVER EVEN EXISTED. YOU DONT EVEN REALISE SHOUTO HAS ANOTHER BROTHER UNTIL NATSUO BRINGS IT UP FIVE FUCKING SEASONS IN.

the family jewels - i dont htink i need to elaborate on this one lmao. obligatory complicated family dynamics anthem

seventeen - like cigarette daydreams i know he wasn't specifically seventeen and im not purposely picking songs that focus on that lmao. i love this song so much like the vocals of 'you don't know fuck about my family, could never tell you what happened the day i turned SEVENTEENNNN' scratches SUCH an itch in my brain im obsessed with it. like there's a mystery to it bc she never elaborates on what actually happened but clearly it's something bad. i really like that side of it like i love the mystery and for so long in the anime dabi is a HUGE mystery like there's no backstory reveal until SEASON SIX that's INSANE for such a main character to not get even a HINT of backstory for so long.

father - I HAVE THIS DREAM THAT I AM HITTING MY DAD WITH A BASEBALL BAT AND HE IS SCREAMING AND CRYING FOR HELP AND MAYBE HALFWAY THROUGH IT HAS MORE TO DO WITH ME KILLING HIM THAN IT EVER DID PROTECTING MYSELF! literally one of the most insane lyrics of any song ever im being deadly serious there is so much to unpack there so much to consider so much packed into one line. it has more to do with me killing him than it ever did protecting myself. WHAT

body terror song - body horror dabi hours! this man is 70% fourth degree burns that are only still attached to his healthy skin by fucking medical staples. i dont even want to consider how much chronic pain he has. every fic that has him having to redo/adjust a staple feeds me bc im so compelled by his character design. how is he not high off his shit every day just to cope. it's heavily implied he doesn't even have TEAR DUCTS anymore so when he cries it's just blood. he loses his fucking personhood to the flames so much that he renames himself cremation because that's what he is now and the anime just... never addresses it. never says if it hurts or not. this ALONE would be my cause for killing endeavor for leaving him in this state let alone the million other layers to it i cannot BELIEVE some people say it's unjustified sorry im not gonna go off on a tangent but ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING

dirty night clowns - i adore this song i couldnt tell you wtf it's about but it makes me feel uncomfortable in my own skin and i thought that was fitting for dabi. i really dont have much else to say like i do think this might just be one of those 'i have a personal interpretation of this song based solely on vibes' and it makes no sense to anyone else LOL

just take my wallet - YOUR MOMMA'S CRYING! YOUR MOMMA'S CRYING FOR YOU! WHAT'S THE SOFTEST WAY TO SAY YOU TOOK AWAY MY FRIEND? i feel like this is another 'touya into dabi' song like rei is crying for her son but touya is dead. there's only dabi now. dabi killed touya to become something that could ruin endeavor, and that's all that matters now

#there we go! this got long but im not even sorry just DO NOT click the read more if you're not interested #you WILL regret it lmao #feeling normal amounts of thoughts and emotions about this one made up freak #ask #touya todoroki #song rec

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thebibliomancer · 6 months

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Essential Avengers: West Coast Avengers #44: BETTER A WIDOW...

May, 1989

VisionQuest continues

Vision forgot to put his skin on today...

And Hank Pym's 'I'm not like the other superheroes' jumpsuit is awfully maroon today.

Anyway.

Last times on West Coast Avengers: John Byrne took over the book and a bunch of things changed between issues. Tigra, Wasp, and Dr Pym rejoined the team.

Then, a fake-Ultron attacked and Vision was kidnapped and unpersoned while the West Coast Avengers were distracted.

Mockingbird showed up to Explain It All and took the Avengers to the secret Vigilance base where Vision had been taken due to fears he'd try to take over the world again.

Only the West Coast Avengers arrived Too Late. And Wanda found her husband disassembled, his parts strewn everywhere. It'd be way too much gore for comics if he weren't a robot.

Even this splash page is kinda too much, even with robot bits.

My boy! Look how they massacred my boy!

;_;

The various scientist who were just taking Vision apart are very concerned that Scarlet Witch and probably the Avengers are here instead of somewhere else being distracted.

And Wanda is not sympathetic. In fact, she's as angry as someone would be if they found their spouse turned into a pile of anatomy.

Mockingbird, who has still more exposition to exposition, explains this was the end goal of the kidnap Vision scheme. To erase Vision along with any top secret data he may have picked up when he was the internet for a hot minute.

Wonder Man shows up with project head Cameron Brock under arm and tells him to exposition more.

And since Vision has already been taken apart, Brock has no problem spilling the beans.

Vigilance is not a KGB operation but they are involved running the detention cells, which is why Mockingbird thought it was a KGB operation.

Brock reveals, he's not KGB and he's not SHIELD either. He's CANADIAN.

DUN DUN DUNNNN

Wonder Man jokes about the concept of Canadian spies, showing that he has never heard of Wolverine. He then jokes about Australia, because he's going for all the hits.

Brock goes 'well actually my deputy chief is Australian.'

And he explains that Vigilance is actually a truly worldwide joint venture. Almost every security network on Earth sent a representative.

The Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, etc etc.

The kind of global cooperation almost unheard of -- all to specifically fuck up Vision.

Brock reiterates what he told Mockingbird. As long as Vision wasn't on the Avengers, everybody was willing to grit their teeth and let bygones be whatevers. But as soon as he rejoined (because Hawkeye was a sad sack who couldn't keep together a team), all the intelligence agencies put aside their differences to fuck up Vision.

Global peace, just like Vision wanted when he took over the internet. What ironies.

Wanda claims that Vision can be put back together. He is a robotty robot so clearly they just reassemble him and good as new.

Hank Pym shows up just to say nuh uh.

This is a theme in this issue. People showing up in the nick of time to say nuh uh.

Even though Hank is an expert in robotics despite being a biochemist and even though he's more familiar with Vision's systems than almost anyone, he's skeptical that humpty dumpty can be put back together again.

If Vision's brain was erased like Mockingbird said, Hank has no idea how to deal with that.

Wanda says that they can just borrow some brain patterns from Wonder Man again and use the backup memory file that Vision kept in the Avengers' computers.

Again, with this idea that Vision's brain is a computer that can be uploaded to external storage. I feel like that's at odds with how Vision has been portrayed in the past.

But it doesn't matter.

Vigilance wiped the Avengers' computer systems with a virus. Both the East and West Coast teams. There's no back-up.

(This is where John Byrne put in a backdoor, as some writers do when writing something that may be contentious. In this case, his backdoor to get out of this was that there's a copy of Vision's brain in the Titan supercomputer ISAAC. From the time that Vision linked with ISAAC.)

(John Byrne also uses the idea that Vision's brain can just be backed up as evidence that Vision isn't a real boy and is just an overly sophisticated appliance. The idea that he introduced. Sigh.)

With all the problems on the table, Hank says lets ignore the fact that Vision's unique personality is probably gone forever, erased by magnets or whatever. Just putting all the pieces back together is going to be hard enough.

Heck, the Vision was built from the base of the original Human Torch, the most sophisticated android ever created. That might be beyond Hank's level of skill!

And then Wasp shows up and goes nuh uh!

Not about Hank not being able to do it but about the thing he said about the robot Human Torch.

The shocking prisoner she found in the detention level that was so shocking it had to wait until this issue to reveal?

It's Phineas Horton, allegedly!

He supposedly died in Vision's backstory but we're about to take a big dump on that.

Vigilance wanted an expert in Vision's systems so they tried to find associates of Phineas Horton that might have worked with him on the Human Torch.

Instead they found the actual dude. Just casually not dead.

Hank is like okay weird that Vision thought this guy was dead but he could have been mistaken. Either way, hot damn, the exact expert we needed is right at hand!

And Dr Phineas Horton says nuh uh. He's already here so he didn't pop in just to say it but he's complementing Wasp's earlier nuh uh.

He's definitely the real Dr Phineas Horton (this man will later be retconned to be an imposter, womp womp, retcon tennis) and he doesn't recognize Vision's systems at all.

Vision is definitely not Horton's creation.

DUN DUN DUNNNNN

Elsewhere, Hawkeye didn't get the memo about waiting just outside the lab to pop in and nuh uh things so he's wandering around the backlot of the Vigilance base.

And I say backlot because aside from the main areas that Mockingbird saw and the stuff related to disassembling Vision and holding people prisoner, this entire base is just a mock-up. Just enough actually functional stuff to fool Mockingbird into thinking it was a fully operational secret SHIELD facility.

Hawkeye also wonders how the Vigilance team was able to capture Vision, which I also am wondering.

But he hears Tigra growling and follows the sound to find her having cornered a couple of Vigilance guys.

Vigilance Person: "You're Hawkeye! Help us!" Another Vigilance Person: "For god's sake... stop her!!"

Hawkeye calls Tigra's name which makes her swing her attention from nameless asshole 1 and 2 to pounce at Hawkeye.

I guess one of her uncontrollable cat instincts is to kill birds.

(Despite the narrative caption promising that all kinds of horrible injury is about to happen to Hawkeye, he's fine when we next see him and Tigra. Typical sensationalism, tsk tsk.)

For some ding dang reason, the narrative cuts to Absolom College in Texas where some shadowy collegiate figures are trying to choose a suitable subject from a list of mutants.

Forty-one candidates are rejected before Scarlet Witch is chosen for whatever this is all about.

If you're curious and have trouble with the tiny headshots, here's how the judging sorts out:

No: Angel, Avalanche, Blob, Caliban, Callisto, Cannonball, Cyclops, Destiny, Firestar, Forge, Iceman, Karma, Multiple Man, Magma, Malice, Mandrill, Marvel Girl, Mastermind, Mesmero, Mystique, Nekra, Nightcrawler, and Pyro.

Too powerful: Apocalypse, Magneto, and Rachael Phoenix.

Too weak: Banshee, Black Tom Cassidy. This category is reserved for the Cassidys, I guess.

Too unstable: Beast, Cloak, Dagger, Legion, Quicksilver.

Dead: Colossus, Cypher, Dazzler, Havok, and Rogue.

No longer viable: Magik, because she retconned herself back to a young girl in Inferno, or something.

Unverified: Sabra, Sabretooth.

This was hard because the marvel wiki didn't have them all. I had to go looking other places and at one point just pull up a list of Marvel mutants and check everything that fell between certain letters. Because, thankfully, this is alphabetized.

What's funny about the dead category is that Cypher is the only one who is actually dead. Everyone else just faked their deaths and moved to Australia.

Back at the plot, some paramedics take Dr Phineas Horton away for treatment. Because he was an old man and Vigilance was keeping him in a KGB-type detention cell. He's not in a great state.

Wanda asks Hank why Dr Phineas Horton IF THATS HIS REAL NAME (lol, its not, retroactively) would say that Vision isn't his work when we all know that Vision was repurposed from the body of the robot Human Torch.

Hank has no idea but he's also distracted by the police coming up and asking what they should do with the Vigilance dudes that the West Coast Avengers captured.

And Hank says 'fuck if I know, let them go, ain't no law'

Specifically, since Vigilance was every intelligence agency working together specifically to fuck Vision, they all have government approval and nothing they did is wrong. And/or have diplomatic immunity because they're from Canada or whatever.

Project head Cameron Brock smugs about how Hank figured out how untouchable they all are.

Wasp is like uh geez are you sure, Hank? They kidnapped Vision and reduced him to piles of bits. And Hank says they sure did but we can't do anything about it. We didn't know we were fighting the law but the law won. Can't fight city hall. Best they can do is call Agent Sikorsky, the Avengers' government liaison, and whine about it.

Hawkeye and Tigra rejoin the group, having missed the plot, and Hawkeye covers for Tigra by downplaying the incident as Tigra getting "a little carried away."

Since the West Coast Avengers can't do anything except take Vision's various components home and try to put him back together, Hank proposes they do just that. Just leave Vigilance and go home to pick up the pieces.

Scarlet Witch has one thing she wants to do first.

And she blows the Vigilance base the fuck up.

Good thing everyone was already outside.

I'm not through this arc yet. I'm not even through the issue yet. But I looked at marvel wiki and Vigilance only has two appearances. This issue and the previous issue.

So I'm going to maybe jump the gun a little and talk about why, however things play out from here on, this story is going to be unsatisfying.

I don't like that the Avengers just have to shrug and accept that the government(s) killed Vision and there's nothing they can do about it.

It's a lot like how many spider-fans are still pissed about One More Day. It's not just about the marriage. Spider-Man made a bum deal with the devil and he's never going to get to redeem himself as things stand.

Sometimes cruel things just happen and there's no recourse except to pick up the pieces and try to live your life. But the superhero genre tends to be more active than that. Situations can be punched. There's always someone that can be punched.

If the Implied President of the United States is behind an evil plot to use a mutant powered UFO to take over the country, you don't shrug and decide he's too big to fight. If you're Captain America, you chase him to the Oval Office and unmask him. For one, particularly bizarre, example.

I don't know that it would make a better story if the Avengers COULD fight Vigilance in some way but it would feel less empty.

This whole thing feels less like a story and more writer fiat. Just like starting the team with Tigra and Wasp and Dr Pym back so Byrne doesn't have to do the legwork to get the team where he wants it.

An evil governments conspiracy kidnaps Vision and takes him apart so he can be rebuilt in Byrne's preferred way, everyone stands around talk talk talking about how this change is totally irreversible and the Avengers also can't do anything to the people that did it. And then Vigilance fucks off to never be heard from again.

There's more legwork done but only enough to get the change on paper. Because having Vision change like he is going to (spoilers: Vision is not going to be a pile of parts forever) and have it happen between issues is too much for the audience to buy.

Also on topic, also spoilers: this is going to lead to one of the big OH NO WANDA HAS GONE CRAZY stories which was apparently the only research Brian Michael Bendis did before Disassembled. And it may not be a good story but it may have been a better story if Evil Crazy Wanda had gone after Vigilance. Instead of what she does do. Which is apparently try to have sex with Wonder Man.

Byrne is going to ragequit the book at some point so I'm not sure how much of that is his fault. But what a blatantly obvious plot point to leave on the table.

Anyway. That's my feelings about VisionQuest. Before we even see how it falls out. It's a drastic change jammed into the book without respecting the audience enough to make it a good story.

You know when a writer really wants to write to a certain conclusion and has to expend walls of text assuring the reader that this is clearly the only way this could possibly go down? That's what this all feels like.

So that rant having been ranted, let's move onto the beginning of another dumb plot point.

When the West Coast Avengers arrive back at the West Coast Avengers Compound, they discover a distress signal has been activated from the guest house - where Wanda and Vision have been living.

Understandably, Wanda assumes the worst. That Vigilance has come after her children too, she runs to the guest house.

The racist governess Miss Bach tries to tell Wanda that babies Tommy and Billy vanished into thin air after she put them into the bath. But when Wanda runs into the bathroom in a panic, she sees that her two babies are happily splashing around in the tub.

... Add John Byrne onto the list of artists that just can't draw a baby to save his life.

Miss Bach insists that she looked everywhere for the twins but Wanda assumes that the governess was playing a sick prank.

So she fires her ass, right on the spot.

Miss Bach appeals to Wasp that she was telling the truth. But Wasp can't tell Wanda not to fire her own personal staff. She at least promises Miss Bach that she'll get the proper severance pay.

Then we time skip two days later, where Wanda is sitting outside Hank Pym's lab while Hank tries to reassemble Vision.

It's apparently not as hard as Hank feared, just tedious. Each piece has only one place it can properly go so its just a matter of trying to find the proper place for hundreds of thousands of pieces.

Wanda wishes that they could contact the Real Professor Horton not that lying fake. Y'know, the real dead guy who died in Vision's backstory.

Scarlet Witch: "If that central fact was now to become untrue... everything we think we know about the Vision would become equally suspect."

Wonder Man says he wasn't around at the time but he loves poking holes in the Celestial Madonna Saga. That's his Thing now. So given what he's heard, he thinks Vision's backstory is sketchy if only because they heard it with the help of Immortus, who is a sketchy, manipulative man.

But then there's a loud WUMP as well as CRASH CLANG tinkle! THUD! from within the lab.

Hank sealed the lab behind a bunch of airlocked doors to prevent contamination to Vision's kibbles 'n bits and it'll take three minutes to open them all.

Or.

Wonder Man just forces them all open.

And then a robot hand shoots out of the lab and shoves Wonder Man to the floor.

Ohhhhhh! It's just Vision! He wandered off without putting on his pants or his skin!

Wanda caresses Vision's bare skull, begging him to say he recognizes her.

Terminator Vision backhands her.

Boo. Boo to you, skinless Vision.

Wonder Man grapples Vision, saying he's going to put him down for a nice nap until they can finish fixing him. But he's hesitant to use his FULL POWER on his brother so skinless Vision tosses him across the room.

Elsewhere in the building, Hawkeye is sitting around thinking about how weird Tigra has been.

What we missed off-panel is that he just used a gas arrow when she pounced at him, knocking her out until she calmed the fuck down.

That narrative caption promising horrible violence really lied.

After coming back from the Vigilance base, Tigra has been hiding away in her bungalow.

Hawkeye isn't sure why he promised to cover for her but WHOOPS INCOMING A-PLOT.

He hears the ruckus going on in the lab and hustles down to see skinless Vision hoisting Wonder Man around.

Hawkeye shoots a constrictor arrow at the rampaging synthezoid but Vision just flexes his way free.

Wonder Man tells Wanda she's got to use her bullshit win-button powers to win because brute force isn't working and that's all he knows.

Wanda refuses to use her powers against Vision because she's worried that she doesn't have precise enough control of her hexes and that she might make him blow up.

She DID blow up a building a couple days ago. But she was really mad at that building.

And while Wanda is paralyzed, refusing to help, Vision picks up Hawkeye and shakes him upside down.

Its pretty funny.

I will say that it does make sense that Wanda would be hesitant to use her powers on the robo-man she loves. Its similar to how Wonder Man is pulling his punches.

But I do note that Wanda has been pretty useless this entire story. She was hypnotized to be unable to fight Fake-Ultron. Not sure why that was actually necessary but it was the explanation. And now she's not able to participate in the fight against skinless Vision.

She did blow up a building though.

I also have to say that Skinless Vision is a pretty intimidating antagonist.

His arm shooting out of the smokey lab to grab Wonder Man. Striking Scarlet Witch with no trace of emotion. Staggering around in the shadows as he moves on the collapsed Wanda. The way he tosses around Wonder Man and Hawkeye using just his robot strength, not his density powers. His robot noises being more audible without his skin in the way. Just the way he looks like a flayed corpse.

I gotta give props where props is earned because otherwise this post is going to be just bitter. And props, skinless Vision is alarming.

Anyway. Back to the plot. Where Scarlet Witch refuses to help.

Wonder Man: "You've got to take that chance, Wanda! Trust that your power won't permanently harm someone you love! But do it now! Before he kills Hawkeye -- or me!" Scarlet Witch: "No! No! Forgive me! I can't! I just can't!!" Dr Pym: "That's all right, Wanda..."

Hey, thank goodness for Hank Pym.

And that answers how Vigilance kidnapped Vision.

The device Hank has is a neutralizer that Vigilance used to shut Vision off for kidnapping reasons.

All the ruckus Wanda and Wonder Man heard in the lab was Hank reactivating Vision and then Vision smashing stuff up because when he's activated without his brain functioning, he defaults to defensive actions.

Hank only just regained consciousness and shut Vision back down.

SO THATS ALL EXPLAINED.

Skinless Vision is more of Brainless Vision. Head empty, no thoughts, just lashing out.

Hawkeye decides that this is his cue to call Washington and yell at Avengers liaison Sikorski.

Hawkeye: "Look, Sikorski, I don't care if I woke you out of your death bed! I want to know what you paper-pushers are gonna do about the Vision!" Sikorski: "Do? You seem to be missing the point, archer. We've already done it. The Vision has been rendered harmless. He presents no further threat to the security of this nation... Or any other, for that matter. You Avengers are now at liberty to reprogram him to suit whatever function you wish."

Wow. What an asshole.

He's still better than Henry Peter Gyrich but only because Gyrich would have said the same things and been 1000% smug about it.

God I hate Gyrich.

I'm glad Abigail Brand shoved him out of an airlock.

Anyway. Implication seems to be that Sikorski was In On It or at least was told after the fact and agreed 'yeah, excellent decisions all around.'

Vision isn't a dude. He was a malfunctioning appliance that had to be reset to factory settings so he could get back to Fighting Crime Or Whatever.

Hank argues that a) the Avengers can't just reprogram Vision that easily, b) the Vision they knew has effectively been killed by death of personality, and c) even putting aside all that, this is going to fuck up Wanda.

Which Sikorski acknowledges and says he regrets. That specific point.

What an asshole.

Anyway, as long as the Avengers called him to yell at him, Sikorski has some information he should have told them earlier but I guess he forgot or he's just shit at his job.

On top of killing Vision, the government has also decided that the West Coast Avengers and Vision need direct government oversight and have sent someone to take over the team. And the West Coast Avengers either accept this or the government cracks down on their future activities.

OKAY HAVE FUN WITH THE NEW GUY BYYYYYYE

And judging by the silhouette, it seems like the new guy is an old guy. A guy they can all get along with.

But silhouettes often lie in comics and this is the opposite of all that. A new guy that none of them can get along with.

When the government issued an ultimatum our way or the highway to Captain America and he quit and became the Captain, the government gave the Captain America name, costume, and shield to John Walker.

But recently, you may have noticed that good ol' Steve Rogers is back in his old costume and name and shield. Well, the government gave Cap's the Captain outfit to John Walker and dubbed him U.S.Agent.

And by editorial mandate governmental order, he's joining the West Coast Avengers.

Yeah, actually, it was editorial mandate.

According to John Byrne, editor Gruenwald, who created John Walker, insisted that Byrne put him in the West Coast Avengers book.

A captain-esque guy on every team!

John Byrne, who rankles at any degree of editorial meddling, had him written in as being forced on the team by an uncaring asshole higher power so he can annoy everyone on the team and not fit in.

John Byrne is not subtle sometimes.

Buuuuut. Like I said with the Worst Roster. A team having friction is very often more interesting. And there's a kind of poetic irony to Hawkeye having been the asshole constantly butting heads with Captain America getting his own Brand X Captain America to be the asshole to butt heads with him.

It rhymes.

So VisionQuest continues for another issue but AS OF RIGHT NOW I have to say it takes a sharp dip in quality after the first issue.

The first issue really jumped into things with a newish team suddenly assaulted by a Fake Ultron and having Vision stolen right out from under them.

Issues 2 and 3 are in full justification and retcon mode so it all bogs down into walls of text and explaining how this sequence of events is the only sequence of events.

I'm actually excited to see U.S.Agent here to shake things up and be a pebble in the team's shoe right when they're already going through the identity death of a beloved teammate.

Just please. Fewer walls of text.

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#avengers #essential avengers #west coast avengers #Vigilance #Hawkeye #Hank Pym #Dr Pym #Scarlet Witch #the Vision #Wonder Man #the Wasp #Tigra #Mockingbird #Phineas Horton #mysterious shadowy college project #the government is a dick but what else is new #last page new team member

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empty-pizza · 11 months

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thoughts on gideon the ninth chapter thirty

yeah, this isn't good for my theory. culprit reveals are about surprise. if we're actually seriously discussing the possibility that harrow is the culprit, that severely lowers the chances that it really is her. it doesn't completely erase them, but damn. not sure how the book is gonna play it from here on.

if harrow is not the culprit, then what? because again, when you put something as clear and obvious as A HEAD HIDDEN IN HARROW'S STUFF and let's be real harrow would not hide it that sloppily when gideon lives there too and why would she even keep the head, then it's gotta be a red herring. harrow wards her doorway, doesn't she? but if i can think of a bunch of ways for harrow to have committed the locked room murder that happened to jeannemary, then there's surely a way someone could have put a head in here. one is not exactly coming to mind for me yet, but there could be something.

palamedes is so based, saying he'd help camilla bury a body.

gideon says harrow didn't kill the fourth or fifth. i suspected she did. not sure where this is going.

ooh, gideon didn't just see the parents commit suicide, but killed them. wild.

okay, she didn't really cause that. whatever. there are SO MANY unknowns in that situation. what is in the locked tomb!! why did they kill themselves! did harrow cause it!

palamedes stop trolling me and claiming to be the culprit smh. you can't just do that. it made me realize that most of my predictions for Harrow as culprit had to do with Isaac and Jeannemary, and there actually could have been a different culprit behind Magnus and Abigail's deaths. hell, maybe palamedes is double trolling and he really did kill them.

that piece of paper gideon found still does need to be explained. also, the corpses in the incinerator. the paper, sorry, FLIMSY, is the kind of thing that might not even be explained this book, but honestly i feel like the incinerator corpses are as important to this book as the named characters who died.

wait what

oh okay, he was already dead, that makes sense. maybe the rest of his body was in the incinerator, and that explains why the corpse was months old technically. wait, were there two bodies in the incinerator? not sure.

humpty dumpty ass can't believe dulcinea said "i'll never be able to put him back together now"

the question is, how did harrow find out? did she seek it out, did the magic stop working on its own, or did protesilaus try to kill harrow?

since we've gone back to "harrow is not the killer" this means that "harrow is the killer" is a little more possible, again (i am coping and want my theory to be right)

ianthe can't do it like gideon but she did just make a good pun. "a head" lmao.

bingus

#pizza reads locked tomb #the locked tomb #tlt

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marshmallowprotection · 6 months

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Chloroform Girl by Polkadot Cadaver kinda reminds me of bad story ending 2 in Ray’s route

Chloroform girl, how have you been? Don't let me catch you sleeping again You're only alive because I like you (Because I like you) It's been three years since you've seen the sunlight But I know you're having fun Bound, gagged, and chained up in my basement

I see what you're saying but the song feels more surface level of what people think that ending is more so than it does it actualization of what the ending is.

I think of that ending less in the vein of torture and more in the vein of having broken something beyond reason and realizing way too late that you can't put it back together. Suit Saeran thought he had to be strong, and the only way to be strong in that place was to be the worst monster he could think of. He put on a suit because that is representative of his father, and he repeated the words of his Savior and his mother. He became cruelty itself because that is the only way to survive.

I am the strongest is a melody that is a desperate plea to be the strongest in the way he has to be. When that doesn't go according to plan and follow the route that brings us to the good ending, we are subjected to a pitfall. His so-called strength becomes his undoing.

In doing so, he not only destroyed himself but the one person who had faith in him, but by the time he realized that, he was in too deep, and the only thing he can think to do is do anything in his power to draw a reaction out of you but he's never going to get one because you cracked under the pressure of his misery and the torture. He keeps trying and trying over and over to pull a reaction out of you with the cruelty that has allowed him to survive in this place, but you'll never give it. You don't have a reaction to give because you've given up.

We should definitely pay attention to how miserable the ending is because what he's doing isn't right, but it's a lot deeper than just somebody relishing in the "pleasure" pain can cause. Focusing on that aspect doesn't let you see what's under the surface. The truth in his agony and why he acted like that to begin with. To be the best monster he could be to survive was the only way to live given the fact that gentle love and warmth was destroyed under the heel of his savior all for a kiss and a few lies. He was the strongest but it was never worth it.

Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall and couldn't be put back together again. MC was crushed and couldn't be put back together again.

#ask #anon #mod kait #themusicwecryto

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clearly the wonderland stuff has hit critical mass because it’s 6 AM and i’m lying here wide awake trying to line up thoughts in order of which ones i want to write out most except i keep bumping into more SO LIKE. send help i am losing my grip

- kernel of a thought i’ve been gnawing on for a while now that there’s a pattern to the wonderland allusion that i can’t quite put my finger on yet. but it’s like—there’s a sort of temporal wobbliness to what and when that feels like it might be something but also just continual swirling it all around D4, D6 and D7, looping in the aaiw stuff and the red queen by constructing new associations (the queen of hearts was the red king, the duchess’s baby becomes the jabberwalker, the cat leads to hatter leads to hatta, the caterpillar lives in the forest where ruby loses her ‘name’, the beach is the garden is the pool of tears is the island for hunting the snark (<- are the mice the bellman’s crew lol. what are they hunting) and like the connecting thread here is mirrored pairs, the tweedles and hatter/hatta and the immanent reflection of the self in mirror-written jabberwocky, with the cat emerging as both the cheshire cat and humpty dumpty to the jabberwalker’s poetry (<- which draws another circle around neo and the jabberwalker in that the cat belongs to the duchess and the duchess is fanatically concerned with meaning in a way that sits kitty-corner to humpty dumpty’s determination not to let denotative meaning get in his way) and then there’s this undergirding idea of ascension and like—never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them otherwise. the you you wanted to be when you were still you. it’s a matter of perspective, i’m afraid. & they want to get to the tree but can’t but the intertextual layer of the narrative has them oscillating back and forth between primarily D6 and D7; they are so close to winning the game but they can’t see the forest for the tree—and the tree functions like looking glass gardens and perhaps more saliently like the red queen, in that alice wants to meet the red queen but cannot find her until she turns about-face and walks away. (“her tree” huh.) (the blacksmith is the tree is the queen; all the ways about here belong to her and, of course, a cat can look at a king. or a queen.)

- the speaker, the subject, the jabberwock; the knight, jaune, the jabberwalker? (<- also occurring to me suddenly that the reason the only critters from the first stanza not present in the marketplace are the raths is, the duchess’s baby turns into a pig—and a rath is a sort of green pig—and neo is both lost and driven by wrath—and her constructs have recently gained the ability to outgribe.)

- in light of the jabberwalker being the story’s [unwritten, unfinished] ending i am feeling SOME TYPE OF WAY about specifically houston!worst day of my life bc like. man. “once upon a time/i knew who i was/some of it was true.” “i feel as if i’m caught between/what i say and what i mean” “could there be someone else to blame/for why it always feels the same/inside this woman i became” MAN.

- actually yeah no no more equivocating someone on the writing team saw this musical during the houston run. i don’t care who i don’t care to confirm i just know in my heart where all the brainworms live. what’s your title/what’s your purpose :)

- c o r n w i n k l e

- laughing hysterically forever about what this implies about ozlem OH YOU MEANT DIVORCED DIVORCED. LOL. LMAO

- ahem.

- wonderland—more precisely hunting of the snark—has a particular invocation of the rule of three (anything said thrice is true) and given the obvious fun rwby could have with an idea like that i’m wondering if we’ll see it repeated in the ever after in some capacity, whether as a literal narrative rule within the ever after or thematically. it occurs to me that it might have done already; “i am a huntress” is repeated thrice before crashing into ruby’s existential dread and uncertainty (<- the beaver loses count and mathematical panic ensues, which incidentally is also the part of the poem where the jubjub bird appears and, further incidentally for the bees people in the audience, is also the bonding moment in which the friendship between the butcher and the beaver becomes so homoerotic that there’s academic discourse about whether the beaver might actually be female, so make of that what you will.)

- the lively carpenter is not the blacksmith so Question Mark. the thing is the walrus and the carpenter is the tweedles’ poem so its inclusion fits the 4/6/7 focus and it connects to both the forest without names and the red king directly, and perhaps to the jabberwalker in the more roundabout sense that where jabberwocky is a poem about slaying a creature the walrus and the carpenter is about people behaving monstrously. who’s the carpenter and what are the oysters

#rwby v9 spoilers

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Queen Alice

@maritimecorpse suggested I rewrite Alice in Wonderland for the 400th fic I'm posting to AO3. This isn't a rewrite so much as playing in the world after remembering that the book does describe a chess game that ends with Alice able to become a queen.

Summary: Alice made it to the other side of the board and became a queen, now people are wondering how she'll get her army made.

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Now I'm no genius at chess and rarely ever play. I couldn't immediately recall where the pieces all begin or precisely how they interact.

But that's of no consequence here, for though our darling Alice played the game, she never realised what game it was. Of course she thought her day in wonderland was fragmented but a lot of days feel like that, especially when you're young and lessons make up your days.

Since her adventures following the white rabbit, Alice has carried on dreaming. She's been forever curious, wanting to know everything or figure out the answers to everything whether they're right or wrong.

We've mentioned chess already, and perhaps the average reader doesn't know why, or the average person who has seen the movies but not the books and probably assumed the story rotated around a card game instead of a mix of chess and nursery rhymes. After all, the Queen of Hearts is always there, and that's a playing card, not usually seen as a mixing of the queens in chess and the nursery rhyme about tarts being made.

It is however the reason that Alice finds more and more unusual reactions the next time she encounters Wonderland and the areas related to it. Because Alice made it across the board and changed from being a pawn into a queen, only she never gained the team beyond that; No king to defend as he hides behind walls, no rooks or bishops to work beside, nor knights and pawns to command in defence, just Queen Alice a victor with friends made along the way.

“You definitely don't know what's going on, dear. I assume you figured out the way you want to go at least?” The Cheshire cat is back, just his head, hanging in the air beside her as Alice is off again wondering why it's so important to know the locations of countries.

Glancing over she nodded confidently. “It's the way my feet are going.”

“A solid plan for deciding where to go.” He agreed. “You've cause chaos as nobody knows how you're going to form your army, let alone who you've claimed as your king.”

“Kings are rather stationary. Perhaps the Hatter would like that role. He has said he's stuck waiting for teatime forever more so he can't get much more stationary than that.” Alice mused, thinking back over her adventures. “But for the kingdom and army, I'd much prefer to just let people decide if they'd want to join me. Why not just make a group of friends instead of an army?”

The Cheshire cat laughed and she had to check he remained with her and didn't vanish with the noise. It seemed like he'd actually gained the rest of his body. “You've been managing that already. The Duchess has already been making comments over joining your lands and I believe the faux turtle and the gryphon would like to as well.”

“Then they can. Have you heard how Humpty Dumpty is doing? Have the kings men been able to put him together?” She enquired, not doubting for an instant that the cat would know these things even if he hadn't been around them at the same time as her.

“Not yet, but they're still trying. The horses have however given up and started making noise about the endeavour being pointless.” He sighed.

Alice nodded, going to say something more when she was suddenly getting yelled at by someone storming across what she now recognised as a garden, arms waving quite wildly. The recognition also made her realise that while walking with the Cheshire cat she had been walking over flower beds and apparently bent or broken a good many flowers.

It was unquestioned that the cat had dissolved into the air just as soon as the yelling began.

“What do you think you're doing? Damaging all my plants. Those pretty maids were almost in full bloom before you destroyed them.” The gardener yelled, gesturing back to the broken plants which did indeed look more and more like small fainted ladies the longer Alice stared at them.

“I do apologise. I was simply distracted discussing things with the Cheshire cat.” Alice offered, smiling in the hopes it would calm the gardener down some.

The gardener was not calmed and instead turned, glaring across the garden at a fence opposite. “Bad enough I can't get Miss Not a Peep over there to stop her sheep tramping the cockle shells, now I've got someone talking to invisible cats. Carry on with you. Stick to the grass on your way out!”

“Can I know your name please?” Alice asked, but did make her way towards the gate that she could see a sheep unlatching from the other side of it. The scene was reminding her of a rhyme but she wasn't quite certain which one.

“It's Mary.” Came the curt response.

Alice nodded slowly. “Well then Mary, I hope you won't find this impolite but perhaps a different type of fastening on your gate would help keep the sheep away?” She suggested, pointing to the one that was just trotting over to the flower beds.

Before anything could be done towards removing the sheep or finding a more secure gate fastening, it was opening again to a shepherdess Alice could only assume was the one Mary had been complaining about. “Has anyone seen my sheep? I've lost a number of them, you see.”

“There's one over here.” Mary stated, hefting said sheep over her shoulder only to dump it in front of the woman a moment later. “I keep telling you to look after them better and stop them destroying my garden.”

The shepherdess nodded, all too willing to agree. “I'm trying my best, Mary, but it's difficult when they escape in ways I can never figure out.”

“I'll come and look for the rest with you.” Alice decided. “I'm Alice. What's your name?”

“Little Bo Peep. Are you the new queen establishing herself?” She got a curious look from Mary at Bo Peep's question.

She nodded, “Yes. I'm rather just letting the establishing happen around me however. It's far less stressful that way and I've seen how frustrated the other queens are on the daily.”

“Then I'd be grateful for your help.”

As I began, Alice has been dreaming a lot, if you ask her family, ever since she first mentioned a white rabbit in a waistcoat, but there's good reason that a queen would need to be present in the places she gained her title.

#alices adventures in wonderland #alice in wonderland #little bo peep #mary quite contrary #cheshire cat #queen alice

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lilkittay · 11 months

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GET BACK

there was a time in my life where i had a very close deep platonic friendship with a person. at times, i felt simply that i wished they were closer by and not far away. i struggled to explain or understand what my feelings for them were, or if they were even reciprocated. they could never replace my partner, my feelings were of a "i would like to be close and share resources but in a platonic way and with separate living spaces but in the same city" to hang out more but not drive anyone crazy.

our friendship for years was stable, they were a rock i could rely on. or so i thought.

i went through a major change in my life, and at the same time my partner also began a major change in their life. different, and our paths were each our own and very different terrain and yet we could support each other side by side.

my friend decided they needed to have their ownl crisis, they decided not only to mimic the change in my life, but to mimic the change in my partners life as well. and to execute these changes simultaneously.

it felt like a lot of things. one up us? special snowflake olympics? not wanting to be left out? reenactments of childhood traumas where our personal struggles represented siblings ordeals. ohh not this time i wont be pushed to the back burner. im gonna be the pan of grease on fire that ruins dinner! psh.

the one thing it never felt was genuine. no matter how much they tried to convince the kitchen sink their struggle was real, it was fabricated and they built a whole fantasy world in their memories to convince themself of its truth. too rushed. too much haste and later searching for reasons, grasping at any threads, and making up stories by tangling that mess together.

sunk cost fallacy. wont give up the one last thing in it all either.

get back to where you once belonged

it felt crazy. it was crazy. they became crazy. crazier and crazier... it had always been and only became more like watching some kind of sad mockery of a mountain of misguided misunderstandings.

their mimicry/mockery of our struggles, always generating a bigger crisis than what we were struggling with, made me feel as though the tears sweat blood and pain of my own journey were meaningless. unseen. every word i shared met only with some personal anecdote, some self-centered blather. i didnt matter at all and they didnt understand what i or my partner were going through, despite bumbling along in our wake...

the damage is done and sorry will never put humpty dumpty back together again

the creature that replaced my friend i hardly recognize. i swear i was once best friends with a real person, not some overthought persona. not some piecemeal shattered psyche.

i don't care about cartoon card games

i stepped back a bit, put in a little distance for a while just to get a clearer view.

apparently in my absence they reached for the nearest human object in orbit and now theyre "dating" theres so much pathetic desperation there and now its my fault some other person is stuck with it.

i haven't had enough time to process this into words to begin to describe the underlying deeper implications of such behavior, or its underpinnings, or how i feel about it. it isnt mentally healthy.

im not happy for them

as usual, this crap always comes when my path in my career life is taking its own turns. When my growth there hinges on me breaking through the few walls made my neurodivergence that i have to dismantle brick by brick to understand the things i just dont get.

never me always thee

because i was given a different instruction book than everyone else but im playing their game

even if i had my old friend back, im not sure they could help me through this. my partner is here for me serving their role and being always my better half so that is as it should be. no complaints there

but i must face this alone. so much of it is going to be laying bare my own flaws and shortcomings to myself, and having them laid out before me by my leaders. flaying raw my ego and emotions. my friend is incapable of true, dedicated support. no insight. no hint any thoughts or fucks are given.

its all mememememe in there. i swear it wasnt always that way... sigh

never time for me. never time for a halfass attempt at it being about me only me. without payment without exchange without forcing on me their needy needs when i am vulnerable and theyre not welcome.

and fuck. will this ever get better. i dont know.

my old friend helped me through a lot of the past few years of my life in invaluable ways.

then their bff irl died and i guess i filled the void. at first i was bittersweetly honored to fill that role. but i never knew what that friends role was.

i dont know what anything is, im just a tourist

sometimes i feel like i think it would do me some good to go camping alone and just get away from everyone. take my bike, and my tent. hug my partner and say feed the cats and ill text you odten so you dont worry. and just go be alone with myself.

and remember what it was like.

and find out if i still like being alone with me

get back to where i once belonged

it used to feel like talking to my friend was like i could let them inside my head and show them the carnival in there and they could share that space and see me but now i wonder did they ever see anything at all?

no.

this time im owning my crisis. nobody is going to steal it. nobody is going to copy it. nobody is going to yell louder through it and invalidate my existence.

help me dont trump me

get back.

#personal thoughts

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Yesss.....

Alright I was wondering if you could write about the nurse coming in to the cafeteria and she's on crutches because she broke her foot when she stood up for work in the morning? (I did that I feel so dumb!)

Freddy : "What the f*ck happened to you ?"

He would be worried at first, but wouldn't be able to hold back his laughter when you would explain what happened to you.

"You broke your foot...by just walking on your way here ?!"

He won't leave you be..You're the nice nurse who is usually so careful and makes sure that they never get hurt, but you can't even see where you're going ?! Yeah..Not gonna let that one go for a while.

"How's it going, Humpty Dumpty ?!"

Norman *immediately worries and stands up to check on you* : "What happened, my little monster ?"

He would put you on house arrest for the day and bring you food. The man would be a sweetheart with you and not allow you to leave your bed until you're fully restored and rested.

"Don't move. I'll take care of the slashers for the day.."

Oh, boy..He really didn't think this through..He walked in the living room and saw the walls covered in blood, Penny crawling on the ceiling and Freddy floating in the air with Pennywise..He sighed.

"Y/N..Please, come back fast."

Pennywise : "I did not see that one coming.."

He would say when seeing you enter the room with clutches. He would try to be as nice as possible, well..It's still Pennywise we're talking about.

"Can't you just..put it back together and be done with it ? No ? *scoffs* You humans are really weak.."

He would still worry and stay with you until you're walking normally again. He can't risk to lose his favorite human and would growl at whoever enters to ask for your help.

"She's busy ! Get it done yourself !"

He would then pretend not to care, but still come into your room every morning to check on you.

Penny : "You need to be more careful, human !"

He would be concerned at first when he sees you arrive, but would still treat you the same. You can't walk ? No problem. He'll carry you around. You need food ? Easy. Teleportation. He wouldn't really see it as a handicap, but more of a way to have you all to himself for a few weeks. Penny doesn't understand humans' injuries. It would take him merely hours to heal a broken leg.

"You humans are so...fragile. I could literally crush you, and yet, you are also very tenacious..I don't like your species, never will..But, I have to admit that I will always marvel at your consistent will to live.."

You can't help but flinch as his eyes snap up to you and they're the color of fire.

"Don't you find it funny..nurse ?"

Somehow, you feel as if it's a question which is hiding another. Penny may be nice to you most of the time, but that doesn't mean you feel any less safer under his very perceptive eyes.

Brahms *immediately notices and asks you worriedly* : "Are you okay, nurse Y/N ?!"

He would try to stay out of trouble and spend as much time with you to ensure you don’t hurt yourself even more.

"Hey ! Don’t get out of bed. You’re still hurt !"

He would also insist on him bringing you your food in your room, as to not risk worsening your state with other slashers that would surely annoy you with questions or just insist on playing with them. He would also bring you gifts (dolls, chocolates, flowers..)

Jason *sighs before picking you up bridal style to get you back to your room* : "I'll bring you some food later..But, rest ? Please ?"

He will take care of you and try to be as useful as possible, but Jason is Jason so..He'll create more problems than solve them.

"I kinda burned the stove and almost cut out Michael's head while cutting vegetables ? But, yeah, here's your food.."

He may not be the best at handling these sorts of situations, but he will do his best.

Arthur : "Well..Someone woke up on the wrong foot this morning ?! Sorry..I couldn't help myself."

Lots of jokes and injured puns. Arthur would make sure you get some rest, but wouldnt pass on the opportunity to joke around with you, making sure you're not bored while you recover. He would also make sure that a doctor checks on your daily and dance for you to make you smile, everything to make you smile..

Patricia : "Do you want a sandwich ?"

She would try to make you feel better and prepare you food. True, she only knows how to make sandwiches, but Michael did help step up her game with..Brace yourself..grilled cheese sandwiches ! Yeah. Big step up here. Patricia would also come see you everyday to talk and inform you of whatever the slashers have been up to and discuss about different events that happened to the Horde during their day. She's your gossip girl. She'd also ask how you are and if anything exciting happened during your day ? She can be very caring when she wants to.

Five : "Are you really that stupid ?"

Pure and harsh criticism. He may be worried, but he would never tell you that. He would offer you tough love instead and make sure this doesn't happen again.

"One foot in front of the other. That's not so hard."

However, he would help you walk around the facility and make sure nobody asks too much of you. Five may act rude, but it's just that he isn't used to showing his concern openly or dealing with such minor issues. He was shot multiple times and survived, a broken leg is nothing to him but he understands that it's a big deal for you.

"Are you feeling better ?"

Not gonna lie. Michael is a big fellow that rarely gets injured. He's literally made of muscles and usually takes his victims by surprise, so they never really injured him in the past, unless to attack weak and sensitive spots for the luckiest. (eyes, mouth, ears..) He never actually had to worry about an injured limb before and doesn't know how long it takes one to heal, so he'll just come whenever he can and ask how you're feeling and give you support whenever he can. As he is the strongest of the slashers (physically), he won't mind carrying you around in his arms to allow you to see the others (and ensure that no one is dead during your brief stay in the infirmary bay..)

#fandoms #imagine #fanfic #pennywise 1990 #pennywise 1990 x y/n x pennywise 2017 #pennywise 2017 #pennywise x reader #brahms heelsire x reader #jason voorhees x reader #michael myers x reader #freddy krueger x reader #five hargreeves x reader #arthur fleck x reader #norman bates x reader #slashers au #slashers

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pa1nkill3r · 3 years

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rating the shadyside killers on how terrifying they are and if i would allow them to unalive me

spoilers, duh.

CW: depictions of murder, swearing

Cyrus Miller

he targeted children

i'm a minor

me = terrified

he had such a good dynamic with the children before he... you know—

tHE SCENE WHERE HE JUST TAPPED THE METAL THING WHILE MUTTERING SHIT IS SCARY ASF

he's a possessed pastor need i say more

the drawing of him is something i never want to see again

10/10

The Grifter

"THE GRIFTER GUTS GIRLS"

i also fit into this category so that honestly just sucks for me

pretty sure he's the one with the big mask thing where the subtitles in part 3 literally just says [Heavy breathing]

he drowned his victims in lakes

i can't swim nor am i strong

6/10 (+1 bc he targets girls)

Billy Barker

i feel so bad for this kid

wtf does the goode responsible for his possession have against him HE'S A KID

i could dropkick his little bum

grab his baseball bat and WHACK

THE MASK IS WHAT TERRIFIES ME THE MOST ABT HIM

i think i could out run him

yeah i definitely could

2/10 bc of the mask

The Humpty Dumpty Killer

we don't know much about them

they don't have a scene except for an article

i guess we can assume that they k1ll, chop the body into pieces and puts it back together—

sicko

wtf i can imagine them being a cannibal

LIKE BC HUMPTY DUMPTY IS AN EGG—

5/10 ig— idk—

The Milkman (Harry Rooker)

he's terrifying

HIS SCENE IN PART 3

WTF

AND HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE A MILKMAN??

10/10 bc sadie said so

Ruby Lane

let's get this out of the way, i would let ruby lane k1ll me while she sings you always hurt the one you love

simon's right

she is hot

THE WALK??

go off queen

bias aside it is terrifying when she was just sitting on the ground singing then looked up at simon—

and the singing is very eerie (probs bc she was in a choir)

anyway 3/10

Camp Nightwing Killer (Thomas Slater)

another one i would let murd3r me (under specific conditions)

and the condition is: he doesn't wear the sack

he's fast asf

my guy can r u n

i'm also not much of a fan of the axe—

you gotta have some good slashes to officially k1ll someone—

and i don't want to go through that <3

he killed simon, i hate him

w/o the mask 5/10

w the mask 11/10

Skull Mask (Ryan Torres)

IS THE REASON WHY MAYA HAWKE DOESN'T GET MORE SCREENTIME

I GOT MAYA HAWKE BAITED INTO WATCHING THIS SHIT

HE ALSO KILLED KATE

AND FUCKING PUT HER HEAD IN A BREAD SLICER??

at least they got iconic deaths.

BUT STILL

his costume is very cheesy

post death ryan in the hospital was terrifying asf

he just *whoop* stabs ppl

unless your kate

8/10

i'm adding in nick goode (the goode's in general) bc he's technically the mastermind behind all of this shit: 10000/10 hate him

ofc if i were in the actual universe i would be terrified of all of them, a good 11/10. i would've definitely moved to sunnyvale.

#fear street 1994 #fear street 1978 #fear street 1666 #fear street #cyrus miller #the grifter #billy barker #humpty dumpty killer #the milkman #ruby lane #tommy slater #skull mask #shadyside #enclosed a possessed sam bc its funny #shadyside killers

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simplyshelbs16xoxo · 3 years

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Madder Than a Hatter Chapter 1: Missing

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Carol paced back and forth, worry etching lines on her face. A whole month and the police have come up with hardy anything. The whereabouts of Alice were still a mystery. She had to have been taken, considering the one helpful piece of information that did come up: Dr. Thorpe wasn’t a real psychologist. The building of Thorpe’s private practice had disappeared along with her daughter, as if it had never really been there at all.

At least there was no denying who had been behind everything. But who actually is this false doctor? And why did she want Alice? Perhaps it has something to do with Wonderland, she thought. Her daughter had told her the whole story, and though it was definitely hard to swallow at first, there wasn’t much she could do but believe it. Jack, being the King of Wonderland, would be the most difficult to contact, but what of this Hatter? After all, from what Alice had told her, it sounded like they had fallen in love throughout their adventure.

Her mind made up, Carol wrote out a quick, concise letter and sealed it. She grabbed her keys and headed out to the warehouse where the looking glass was hopefully still kept.

The mirror, thankfully, was there as it always had been. It looked just how Alice described it with its ornate golden frame, the reflective surface rippling like water beneath the touch of her finger. Carol was unsure if she wanted to step through. Of course, if it was necessary, she would, but perhaps she could just pass the letter along and someone would find it. She took a deep breath, preparing for what she knew she would have to do. Carol had a thing about heights herself, and didn’t particularly care for freefalling.

“Who are you?” a strange voice called out.

Carol turned to see who could only be the Dormouse. At least, that’s who she believed them to be. They definitely matched Alice’s description. “You don’t know me, but I believe you know my daughter, Alice.”

Dormie’s eyes widened. “Go on.”

“Well, she’s been missing for a month and I have a feeling it may have something to do with Wonderland. I need to get this letter to the Hatter or even to Jack…the King of Hearts?” Carol held onto hope that the Dormouse could help.

“I’m a messenger between worlds,” Dormie told her, reaching their hand out. “I’ll deliver your letter as soon as I arrive. I must hurry. I don’t have a good feeling about this.”

Carol passed on the letter, knowing it was in safe hands. “Thank you! Please ask whomever to let me know if they have any leads.”

Dormie nodded and leapt through the looking glass without a moment’s hesitation.

Guarding the looking glass was one of the most important jobs in all of Wonderland. As Charlie stood sentry, an unmovable man, in the Looking Glass Hall, their messenger returned with such urgency, the White Knight had to be sure they didn’t stumble. “Careful, little Dormouse, what has happened?”

“Oh! Charlie!” Dormie squealed. “I need to see the King right away! Something’s happened. The Alice of Legend is in trouble!”

His whole body tensed. Charlie had grown very close with Alice during her time here. He silently asked for the letter so he could read the contents. “We must find her,” he told Dormie, plucking the Stone of Wonderland from the encasement. He handed back the letter. “You will go on to alert the King.” He began to walk towards the doors.

A nod showed that Dormie understood. “But…where are you going?”

Charlie turned back, his expression quite serious. “I must consult the Harbinger. If Alice is in danger, he will want to know.”

Wonderland had been slowly changing back to its former glory thanks to the efforts of the legendary trio helping overthrow the Queen of Hearts. Jack immediately outlawed emotion tea as soon as the transfer of power was official. Duchess worked at the Hospital of Dreams, helping Caterpillar rehabilitate Wonderlandians that were much too hooked on the stuff. It wasn’t that people in their world didn’t feel—they felt quite deeply—but the ability to control what they felt was too enticing for them. Already so many citizens were saved after only a few months.

With a new start for all, Hatter decided to switch business tactics. At first, he thought he’d go back to a tea shoppe, but with actual tea; the citrusy notes of earl grey, the spice of a cozy chai. Unfortunately, any mention of tea had everyone on edge. What the people needed was something healthy to replace their need for emotion teas: endorphins. So the night club was born, appropriately named Mad as a Hatter. His Great-Uncle Madigan, being the true source of Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter character, would be proud to be honored in this way.

A life without having to walk on the broken shell of Humpty Dumpty was hard to get used to. And though he knew it was madness, a life without Alice was a bit miserable. They had only been acquainted for a few days and he had gone and fallen in love with her. He sometimes felt the regret of not having followed her through the looking glass, but the longer he had put it off, the more difficult it was to even consider. Now, as the bass of the music shook the room, Wonderlandians dancing around him, Hatter found himself wishing Alice was there. He imagined taking her in his arms and leading her in a lobster quadrille.

His gaze fell toward the entrance in time to find Charlie making his way toward him. The seriousness of whatever incident he was sure to report was evident by the hardened look in the old knight’s eyes. It had been quite a while since the two have spoken, and his chest constricted with anxiety over the bad news that he would hear.

“Charlie!” Hatter called out over the music, meeting him halfway. “What’s going on?”

Knowing there was no easy way to say it, Charlie decided it was best to be straightforward. “It’s Alice,” he reported, watching as Hatter’s expression darkened. “She’s gone missing.”

This wasn’t what Hatter had expected. No, this was far worse. “She was supposed to be safe. Her world was supposed to be safe for her.” Forget being worried—Hatter was angry, mostly with himself. Maybe if he had gone after her, this wouldn’t have happened.

“Her mother sent over a message through the Dormouse; she believes it to be related to our world. There’s a chance Alice may be in Wonderland somewhere,” Charlie explained. “Harbinger, we must do something.”

Hatter nodded in agreement, not wanting to believe the danger Alice was in. They had no leads, no real clues as to what could’ve happened. All they knew is what her mother could tell them, and Charlie relayed all he could remember from the letter. “Here’s what we’re going to do,” Hatter began. “You will remain at the looking glass for now.”

“And what will you do, Harbinger?”

Removing his hat and raking a hand through his unkempt hair, Hatter took a moment to breathe. “I have to investigate where she was last known to be. There’s got to be some sort of clue. Looks like I’m going through the looking glass after all.”

Despite the fogginess in her head, Alice knew this wasn’t a sanctioned asylum. Her memories had gotten so unclear, she had started to fake taking the pills. Unfortunately, it didn’t help—it only got worse. She was sure she’d forget herself altogether if she wasn’t careful. It was a struggle during the waking hours, but at night, Alice dreamt of a man with warm brown eyes and a dimpled smile. Despite how happy she remembered being in those dreams, she’d always wake up with tears in her eyes. His face lingered in her mind, but she could no longer recall his name or even who he was to her. Sometimes, if she was really lucky, she’d hallucinate him being there in the cell with her. If that labeled her as mad, then so be it. Maybe she was.

#syfy alice #alice 2009 #my fanfiction #madder than a hatter

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marshmallowprotection · 3 years

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Birthday Title Screen

Saeran’s title screen underneath the cut alongside my thoughts and feelings on the matter. Under the cut simply because if you don’t want to see it, you can go and wait until it’s officially released by Cheritz in your time zone. Anyways, we know why we’re here.

It’s that time again and boy, aren’t we happy to be able to talk about it? Now, this title was advertised as Unknown so I expected Unknown. I didn’t expect my boy Suit Saeran to be on the title. The game tends to imply that Unknown is the just Suit Saeran, and vice versa, but I don’t agree with that notion but I’ve explained that one many times before but the game never confirms outright one way or the other so, you know how that goes.

I’ll spare you that, I’ve got plenty of posts talking about that opinion for you to find if you want, lol.

Either way, this is the first time that Suit Saeran’s gotten the pointed limelight like this. He’s usually meant to surprise the player because they may not see him in their minds as their trying to uncover the mystery and everything. But, we’ve got to say, Cheritz has thrown all spoiler fears out of the window. I mean, they just plastered Seven’s true name on a boat.

I laughed about that but I digress, you’re here for the photo and you want to see me shriek like a banshee.

So, yeah, let’s just our obligatory scream out of the way presently. When I saw this one, I could think was: Oh my God, it’s BE2. The only reason my brain just decided BE2 was because of the framing of all the presents. In that ending, he gives you gifts, he gives you food, but “you’re not good enough to open them or touch them, toy.” He’ll give you all kinds of things but you know, you get what he wants when he decides.

And crumbs, if you’re lucky on a good day, you know?

That being said, it doesn’t have to be framed as BE2, but the presents and gifts just lead me to believe that this is the theme or the idea that it’s taking from to show the audience because what else am I going to be thinking when you’ve gone and thrust that idea into my face like that? Mmm, and I’ve been talking about that ending a lot lately.

Here’s that post if you want to read more about BE2. It’s a tragic ending that is bad for both Saeran and MC. He’s trying to get you back like Humpty Dumpty but he can’t put you back together again. He realized too little, too late, that he liked you the way that Ray did, that he genuinely liked you for you. He can’t say that aloud, so he... tries cruel ways to bring you back, but it will never work and he’s doomed to despair.

No hope for Suit Saeran if the kindness heart can be destroyed in hell. It means it’s only natural that he lose everything.

I appreciate that he’s sticking to his goth theme, though, that party hat is just red and black.

Suit Saeran’s very... minimalist in the sense that he just picks things that are truly intense and sharp. That’s why he wears a suit. That’s because it’s the thing that he knows that can radiate power. Business men are supposed to be strong and forthcoming with their ability, that’s why he leans that way.

His father is like that, the idea of what power and monster is feeds into how he chooses to dress himself.

That’s why he just says, “Suit time.” If anyone was curious about that, anyway, I never seen people talk about that. Ray was given his clothes by Rika, he never got a say in how he dressed. The boys always pick something dark because it’s going to match their mood... their mood is how they pick colors and clothes if given the ability.

That’s why GE Saeran is bright and cottagecore. It reflects the positive shift in his thoughts and perspective on the world. But, with Suit Saeran, he’s trying to emulate what he’s scared of and what he thinks that power is and this is the only way he knows how and it hurts to think about when you frame it that way, I do know that.

Is that meant to be a stamp and playbook? Did Suit Saeran really make a whole illustrated guide for his puppet show? Is he really making acts and stories for all of this? He had to make those puppets himself. We know that Saeran is creative and can make anything, but those things are clearly handmade, hand-painted, I have a strong feeling that he made those clothes himself, too...

You know, I like to imagine him drawing his emojis before he comes to you because he wants to make a good impression, but he’s a very specific artist and he gets angry when he can’t get things right, so I’m really thinking about him being out here in his workroom, painting fine details with a determined look in his eyes like—

“This’ll show that toy. This’ll show them how powerful I am.”

Suit Saeran, honey, this is a gift within itself, you are a dork and I love you so much, oh my God.

TLDR; Suit Saeran makes puppets and makes their own playbook like this is going to a musical or the opera.

He actually brought you the exact outfit. This means that he either made you that outfit, or he got himself, and then he made a smaller version.

I like to think he’s crafty with sewing so I pretend he does things like this, but honestly, if you’ve made it this far, are you also thinking about the fact that he made a doll versions of the both of you to show you something?

Because I can’t stop thinking about that. He really said, “Look at this, I made us, toy!” Like, I wrote a whole imagine once where MC and GE Saeran made each other plush dolls of the other person to sleep with. He just went out here and made puppets simply because he wanted to put on a show. He made y’all and I’m gonna cry what a fucking dork.

This is canon.

My God, I’m canon.

Once again, I’m out here living my best life and nobody’s going to stop me on that front. Saeran wants to impress you and astound you so badly that he does not even realize that the handmade things that he’s making actually would be something that flatter someone.

Like, he could use those to patronize me and berate me for control, but—

I’d really be sitting there compliment his fine eye and craftsmanship. It’s just that great.

“Wow, Saeran. You did this all by yourself? These details are so realistic and finely tuned. This must have taken you hours... no, days, it must have taken you days to paint everything and stitch all of this together, even the little fine details are perfect. You’re amazing! When did you have the time to learn all of this?”

He would scoff, “Of course, I am, you blubbering toy! Don’t suck up to me and think that you’re going to be treated nicely. I won’t tell you anything about me. You don’t deserve that. I didn’t do this to impress you, I did this to show you what I want from you. Now, be a good little toy, sit there, and do as I ask. I won’t repeat myself.”

I find it interesting that he framed himself in the Savior’s seat here. Is that just a tie back to BE3, or is it simply his power play? I think it’s a comment on the fact that he struggles to know how much power that he truly has in his hands. That is to say, he says he’s the strongest, but the reality is, Rika is stronger then him and he bows his head to her.

Even in his fantasy, she holds all of the cards and he has no choice but to bend.

But, with MC, he is trying to use them to control his idea of power... because it’s a fragile thing. It could break at any second. He screams and shouts all that he wants but he knows, deep down, he may be strong, but he’s not the strongest in this place. How could he be? That’s why Rika even says to you during those late hours—

“Mmm, you noticed? He’s using you to stabilize himself because otherwise, he would crumble. Thanks for your sacrifice to helping me win my goals. It wasn’t a pleasure knowing someone as bright as you, getting in my way and trying to turn them against me.”

He only feels strong when something placates the idea in his chest. It hurts, even in his numb and confused heart, he’s hurting and he can’t figure out a way to get out of the dark labyrinth. Did he make the Mint Eye playhouse? Did he? I am saying he did. None of you are going to stop me. Saeran is a creative artist and I will not be contained any longer.

Cheritz confirmed.

You’re a doll on a string in this for him. He wants to say that he bends and controls you to his whims, but... he’s also there. This isn’t just you being a toy, it’s Saeran realizing that he’s a toy, too. Why else would he make a doll of his person, then? This is about him not entirely getting it, though. He would make himself but not realize what he’s implying to know deep down, underneath all of his yelling.

When I saw him in the chair, I thought... this is him in relation to being the marionette king. That’s why they’re doing this, oh my God. It makes sense to frame the MC as a puppet or toy, they’re always “his eyes” and “his toy” and more and more and more. But, he’s also being played for a toy by Rika to get what she wants.

Who is really the puppet here?

Who is really on the strings?

Look at that cocky bastard. Look at him. Look at him forever and deal with me screaming about him, oh my God. In conclusion, I’m having a lot of feelings at the moment presently and I think I’m going to go and lay back down because I am going to need a minute to unpack everything that I’m feeling and dealing with because Suit Saeran.

SUIT SAERAN!

#mod kait #character analysis #mm #mysme #mystic messenger #mysticmessenger #suit saeran #saeran #saeran choi #choi saeran #mm saeran #mysme saeran #mystic messenger saeran #saeran mysme #saeran mm #saeran mystic messenger #long post #spoiler

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Across The Serververse, Chapter 10

Hey! thanks to @thatsalotoftoons and @shipping-queen-fay-blog [thank you for your nice comments, but the way] for following this story.

*Approximately 5 and a half hours later*

“There.” Marvin removed himself from the underside of Sam’s newly-fixed car, with an of someone reaching the end of his tether. “You will not find a more ready-to-go car than that, Yosemite.”

Wile.E closed the bonnet of the car and, handing a tool of some kind to Raodie, gave a thumbs up.

The others all hopped down/stood away from the bits of the car that they were working on, revealing the whole thing in it’s shiny, gold-painted glory to Sam.

It was beautiful, the pirate thought while staring at it in amazement. It had been good before, but now it was great! The two canon muzzles that stuck out the end of the car had been modified so they were now ready to hold anything and Wile.E had done something with the amount of stuff the car could hold so it was, in a word, better.

Sam smiled and ran his hands over the paintwork. “It’s as good as new.” He said, trying not to get to emotional. “I-I don’t know how ta thank ya all.”

“You know...” Pepe said, coming over to stand next to Sam and putting his hand on the car door in what could only be described as a seductive manner. “We technically still have ze time? You could probably still run ze race if you wanted...?”

Sam gave it serious consideration, but then shook his head reluctantly. “Nah. I ah couldn’t do that. Not when we’re missing several relatives. I mean...if it all ends up coming down to the last couple of hours ah don’t wanna be thinkin’ ‘if only I hadn’t run that race!’ Ya know wha’ ah mean? Besides. The track do darn go on forever. Nah, les leave it.”

Just at that exact moment day turned into night, as it tended to do. There were no sunsets or sunrises in the serververse [unless you lived in a live-action world, such as Harry Potter] the sun just went up and down without any warning.

With a cry of alarm Bugs signalled to Marvin and the Martian sped-walked towards him with a placating: “Do not worry yourself, my furry brother, I have a torch somewhere in my hammerspa-”

“What?” Bugs looked at him like he’d lost the plot. “Oi’m not scared of de dark, Marvin. Oi scurry me little hide through pitch-black tunnels most of the time, how can I be scared of de dark? No, I want ta plan wit’ ya where we’re going next as - and you may not have noticed this - IT’S DE MIDDLE OF DE NIGHT!”

Marvin's eyes narrowed and he put his hands on his hips. “I appreciate this is a stressful time for us all, Bugs, but if you would kindly refrain from shouting at me-”

“Who’s shouting?” Bugs yelled.

Marvin’s eyes narrowed even further so they were practically one eye and he said, with dignity. “I shall attribute your attitude to both your concern about our siblings and lack of sleep. Now-” Marvin began, his tone, bearing and general attitude reminding everyone why he was in charge of a planet and they were not. “-Listen to me and listen well. We are nearly out of both water and fuel. We forgot to bring food with us, although I am willing to take responsibility for that as it is my ship, and we now have a car to transport. So I propose we go back to Warner Brothers Central for 12 hours exactly. I shall stock the ship with supplies and fill it up with fuel, Sam can take his car somewhere it won’t be a nuisance and we can all get some rest. We’ll then head straight off and decide who to get next after we all have clearer minds.” There was a pause during which Marvin looked at Bugs like he was expecting a reply.

Bugs blinked back at him, trying to process what he’d just said. His head felt foggy. He ran a hand across his forehead and smiled in what he hoped was a nice smile and not a deranged one.

Marvin cleared his throat and said, slowly and clearly. “I propose we do that right this minute as - as you keep reminding us - time is off the essence. Is anyone against that plan?” He asked, looking round at the rest of the group.

If Bugs had been thinking clearly he’d have seen that everyone else was completely cool with Marvin’s idea, even Tweety who had been on edge for about the last 10 hours, seemed happy with it.

As he was not thinking clearly, however - far from it, he was tired, hungry, stressed and worried - Bugs said with the kind of ferocity you might expect from a wolf, should you ever meet one. “Okay, Oi get it. Ya want ta leave our family alone to fight for dere lives!” Voice rising, he spat. “Granny an’ Speedy are in ‘The Matrix’! Dey could be dead-!”

“Bugs!” Penelope cut in, with an urgent head nod at Tweety, who had gone ashen.

Not even noticing her Bugs steamrolled on. “-Or bein’ attacked or somethin’! Sentient A.I’s who knows what damage dey cahn do! An’ Porky and Daffy are in DC World! An Lola’s dere as well! Villains! Superhero’s! Oi mean sure-” Bugs rambled, his voice becoming progressively higher-pitched as his body also started to shake. “All de times we’ve been dere it’s been fine, bit who knows now? Acid vaults! Incineration rays! Plants! That...” Here Bugs struggled for a few seconds to find the words, then managed to grasp them. “...weird egg man...what was his name? - Humpty Dumpty! I mean-” At this point Bugs found himself unable to talk properly and made motions with his arms that, to him, represented sewing and to everyone else represented a nervous breakdown. “Oi mean...” He repeated. Slowing down now he looked at his family with wide eyes and a trembling frame, saying in a small voice. “...Oi don’t know what I mean.” Before bursting into tears.

There was a long pause while the others tried to remember the last time they saw Bugs cry. Genuinely cry I mean, not for a cartoon or the like. Quite a while ago now...

It was Penelope who finally got enough wits about her to go and actually comfort the rabbit. Making soothing noises and reassuring him that Daffy, Porky and Lola would probably be fine as would the rest of the family, she enveloped him in a hug.

One by one the other toons moved in and hugged Bugs as well. It took a while but eventually the rabbits breathing evened out and he started calming down. A little while longer and Bugs said, somewhat shakily. “Okay...Oi’m alright now. Jus’ lost me senses for a few minutes.”

“It’s perfectly logical.” Wile.E said, in what was meant to be a reassuring manner, but came across as lecturing. “This has been a stressful time and the human - or in your case - the rabbit mind can only deal with so much. After a short while-”

It was at this point that Roadie elbowed his twin and held up a sign that said. ‘I don’t think he needs a lecture, Wile.E.’

Wile.E, massaging his arm, saw this and muttered something agreeable.

“Marvin-” Bugs muttered, sounding exhausted. “-take over will ya? Oi don’t feel good.” And he sat down and put his head in his hands.

“Right.” Marvin wasted no time. “Wile.E and Roadie put Bugs up and carry him back to the ship. It’s clear the poor rabbit’s suffering a nervous breakdown of some sort. We’ll do what I said. Hopefully sleep will restore everyone’s minds. Let’s not waste any time now, Wile.E, Roadie?”

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Meanwhile, watching all this from the monitors Pete smiled [as much as a blob can smile] and dreamed about what it would be like if he could be so lucky as to be one of the ‘Looney Tunes’. He didn’t see why it couldn’t work. HIs jelly-like body was practically made for squashing under anvils....

After indulging this fantasy for more than a few minutes Pete slapped himself and started checking the other monitors.

Elmer was still fine. No change there then. Still showing a resistance to Mama’s Yak Stew and the like, but that was understandable.

Gossamer and Witch Hazel...Pete zoomed in and grimaced a little. Interesting. Very interesting. Amazing how people will change when you give them a little power...

On the bright side the guards were reacting well to Hazel. Pete had been worried about that...

Granny and Speedy...Pete zoomed in just in time for a fighting scene. Pete winced...he’d never seen a handbag used quite like that before...

Lola...still good. She was certainly improving. All that training must be paying off.

And finally Daffy and Porky. Last time they’d been fine...

Pete zoomed in and - ah. How interesting. He leaned forward and linked his tentacles together. Really, he should have expected this. What was it Rhythm always said? There are ways round everything? How clever...

His last thoughts, before he stopped his monitoring for a few hours, was to wonder how the other toons would react to this?

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The Archer is Taylor’s Best Track 5 — an Analysis

This song is an anxiety paranoia attack set to music. The song begins with her choosing to take up arms and fight. Saying she’s ready for it. Then she backs out as her mind starts to go through this split of what do I want? Do I even know?

“Combat, I'm ready for combat/ I say I don't want that, but what if I do?/ 'Cause cruelty wins in the movies/ I've got a hundred thrown-out speeches I almost said to you

Then she goes into this back and forth of how her thoughts switch sides nonstop. She sings about these opposite actions. It sounds like an inability to trust your decision making. Come and go. Jump from the train or ride off. Never growing up vs. getting old.

“Easy they come, easy they go/ I jump from the train, I ride off alone/ I never grew up, it's getting so old”

Then she ends with the heart of this indecision:

“Help me hold onto you.”

Then we get this chorus that explains the issue. She’s played both sides. And built this front or guard of being safe in this narrative. Who could ever leave me? But she draws the distinction with a similar phrase. Why would someone stick around for this game.

“I've been the archer/ I've been the prey/ Who could ever leave me, darling?/ But who could stay?”

The second verse is her choosing a side and going through the thought process of how this has played out in the past and the potential outcome. She paints the picture of where she’s been trying to get away from which is her dark side. But then she asks herself if it’s worth it to search for darkness in someone else just so I can hold onto my anger? She then walks through what it does to her. How it affects her negatively and how she has to live with those decisions made out of spite.

“Dark side, I search for your dark side/ But what if I'm alright, right, right, right here?/ And I cut off my nose just to spite my face/ Then I hate my reflection for years and years”

She then goes through how she’s been losing sleep over this and how living in this place of indecision has left her feeling trapped like a ghost that can’t rest until their wrongs have been righted. She says the room is on fire as though it started without warning. A fire that starts as embers in the background. And before she knew it engulfed her space. And those who she once looked up to who allowed that fire to trap them ended up dying alone because no one could of would want to be trapped in or around that for long. Your person either can’t get in fully or if they are in they are choking on the invisible smoke.

“I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost/ The room is on fire, invisible smoke/ And all of my heroes die all alone”

She ends this train of thought with the same plea. This time begging for the dark side or shadows not to take over:

“Help me hold onto you”

Then we get the chorus again where she’s “screaming who could ever leave me, darling?” Almost like she’s cracking under the pressure.

Then we get the full brunt of this breakdown. Where her paranoia is saying if I know I’m faking they must know I’m faking. They see through my charade they must see through it. But it ends with her admitting that she sees through it and she can’t project that feeling on to other people.

“(I see right through me, I see right through me)/ 'Cause they see right through me/ They see right through me/ They see right through/ Can you see right through me?/ They see right through/ They see right through me/ I see right through me/ I see right through me”

Then we get the Humpty Dumpty reference. Where she describing what happened after she fell. This fall is what led to this breakdown. And now she’s admitting how much it damaged her. They could not put her back together again because she has no clue who she can trust. The pieces can’t fit together the same way. It changes you when the reason for your fall is because you leaned on a wall that you thought would support you.

“All the king's horses, all the king's men/ Couldn't put me together again/ 'Cause all of my enemies started out friends”

And once again she hopes saying this - admitting the trust issues - will be enough to get someone to understand how hard it is to love a broken person who has trouble admitting that they see you as a support system they don’t want to lose.

“Help me hold onto you”

Then the final chorus and outro is the truth it’s the final breaking down of the walls. It’s showing the bravado and by saying no one can handle me then admitting you see through your bullshit. And finally showing how insecure you are that no one would want to stay but finally looking for someone else to stay. Letting someone else in. And ending the song the way you started it. By being ready to fight your inner demons.

“I've been the archer/ I've been the prey/ Who could ever leave me, darling?/ But who could stay?/ (I see right through me, I see right through me)/ Who could stay?/ Who could stay?/ Who could stay?/ You could stay/ You could stay/ You/ Combat, I'm ready for combat”

Bonus tidbit:

The use of “darling” in the Archer gets used as a call back in peace

“Who could ever leave me, darling?”

“I never had the courage of my convictions/ As long as danger is near/ And it's just around the corner, darling/ 'Cause it lives in me/ No, I could never give you peace"

This song opens with a call back to the dark place anxiety takes her. And how her desire to control situations and narratives will not go away. Why would anyone put up with this secret life is question in peace. While them choosing to stay and the guilt that comes from that is the crux of the Archer.

Would it be enough if I could never give you peace?

Who could stay? You could stay. Help me hold onto you.

Such a great song. I love when Taylor focuses on her mental struggles because it feels more vulnerable than singing about love.

An alternative interpretation for the archer and peace is that she’s singing to herself. The you is her.

#song analysis #the archer #lover era #lyrical parallels #taylor swift #music #thoughts #ts7 lover #peace #folklore #folklore album

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